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Civil Service Statistics 2005 annual report
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Chart 2 and Chart 3 show the distribution of Permanent staff by Government Office Regions. Details for departments are shown in Table A. From April 1997 the Government Statistical Service adopted the boundaries of the Government Offices for the Regions as the standard basis for regional analyses.
- Chart 2: Changing geography of civil servants; 1997 and 2005
- Chart 3: Permanent civil servants by Government Office Region; 1997 and 2005
- Table A: Regional distribution of permanent staff; 2005 [MS XLS 50KB, 1 pages]
Fewer than one fifth of all permanent civil servants (FTE) work in London. Over 70 per cent of civil servants work outside London and the South East. The regional distribution of civil servants has not changed notably over the 8-year period. Compared with the 1997 base year, the greatest increases were in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and East of England regions. The greatest decreases over the 8-year period occurred in the South East and London.
Over the last 8 years the proportion of civil servants in Scotland has remained just above 9 per cent of the Civil Service. In Wales the share of Civil Service staff increased to 6.3 per cent from 5.6 per cent.